Yesterday when I was young
 The taste of life was sweet like rain upon my tongue
 I teased at life as if it were a foolish game
 The way an evening breeze would tease a candle flame
 The thousand dreams I dreamed
 The splendid things I planned
 I always built to last on weekend shifting sand
 I lived by night and shinned the naked light of day
 And only now I see how the years have run away
 
 Yesterday when I was young
 There were so many songs that waited to be sung
 So many wild pleasures lay in store for me
 And so musch pain my dazzled eyes refused to see
 
 I ran so fast in time and youth at last ran out
 I never stopped to think what life was all about
 And every conversation that I can (now) recall
 Concerned itself with me and nothing else at all
 
 Yesterday the moon was blue
 And every crazy day brought something new to do
 And I used my magic age as if it were a wand
 And ever saw all the waste and emptiness beyond
 
 The game of love I played with arrogance and pride
 And every flame I lit so quickly , quickly died
 The friends I made off seem somehow to drife away
 And only I'm left on stage to end the play 　 (chorus)
 
 There are so many song in me that won't be sung
 'Cause I feel the vitter taste of tears upon my tongue
 And the time has come for me
 To pay for yesterday when I was young